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n. - Abnormally high blood sugar usually associated with diabetes.

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  • Major risk factors of this condition are the level and duration of hyperglycaemia.
  • They include control of hyperglycaemia, control of hypertension and restriction of dietary protein.
  • The level at which symptoms occur is slightly higher in the diabetic with marked hyperglycaemia than in a patient whose blood sugar is normal.
  • Best, and under my direction, he succeeded in 1922 in showing that such extracts reduced the hyperglycaemia and glycosuria in depancreatized dogs.
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